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The Couch Pod

Charles Chy

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Welcome to "The Couch Pod," where we dive deep into the world of couch flipping! Hosted by Charles Chy, this weekly podcast serves as your ultimate guide to mastering the art of couch flipping. Whether you're just starting out or you're already flipping couches like a pro, "The Couch Pod" brings you exclusive interviews with industry leaders who've risen to the top of the game. They're here to share their secrets, from nailing the perfect purchase to making a sale that turns heads—and profit ...
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On the Goldster Conversations Podcast you hear captivating interviews with best-selling authors, intrepid explorers, former spies and international sports people. We have different shows – Inside Story, Purpose, Passion and Grit, and Author to Author. Biographer and descendant of Charles Dickens, Lucinda Hawksley; Journalist, thriller writer and Lucinda’s distant cousin, Humphrey Hawksley; Polar explorer Rosie Stancer; and international cricketer and rugby player, Alistair Hignell. We would ...
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The Scholar and The Guru

The Scholar and the Guru

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The Scholar and the Guru is a free-flowing conversation that provides an alternative and refreshing take on everything nutrition and wellness-related. Focused on cutting through the BS and filtering out “the noise” in today's oversaturated and over-mediated landscape, the show is designed to offer simple and tangible takeaways that can be applied in real life. Emphasizing an open format, the show is centered on four main themes (fitness, nutrition, social aspects of health and spirituality), ...
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George Harrison was a musician, singer and songwriter who became one of the most famous people in the world as one quarter of the Beatles. That alone would merit a place in the Great Lives pantheon, but his work in the decades after the band broke up indicates a man of diverse and arguably underestimated talents. Erupting onto the pop music scene i…
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John Gay, eighteenth-century satirist and author of The Beggar's Opera, is nominated by the writer Jake Arnott - whose novels, including The Long Firm and He Kills Coppers, are also set in London's criminal underworld. Editor of Private Eye, Ian Hislop, is the presenter, and Dr Rebecca Bullard of the University of Oxford is on hand to help uncover …
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🆓Start your 7-day free trial! https://linktr.ee/ivyflip In this episode of The Couch Pod, we sit down with Kristina and Tyler, a husband-wife duo flipping couches full-time in Los Angeles. From humble beginnings during the pandemic to becoming known as ‘the couch people,’ they’ve built a reputation in their community for turning over couches at lig…
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🆓Start your 7-day free trial! https://linktr.ee/ivyflip In this episode of The Couch Pod, we sit down with the Cers Brothers of Comfy Living Chicago to explore how they’ve built their couch flipping business from a small storage unit hustle to a full-scale operation with a 3,000-square-foot warehouse. We dive into the challenges they’ve faced, from…
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One dubbed "the biggest, loudest and indisputably the rudest mouth on the battleground", Florynce Kennedy was a force to be reckoned with. She was a lawyer, a vocal figure in the American civil rights and feminist movements of the 1960s and '70s, and a champion of numerous other causes besides; from legalising abortion to campaigning for sex-worker…
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🆓Start your 7-day free trial! https://linktr.ee/ivyflip In this episode, we sit down with Jason, a couch flipper who’s been through it all—from starting in the clearance aisle to mastering liquidation auctions. Jason opens up about the emotional highs and lows of the business and shares his journey to finding financial freedom through couch flippin…
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"I've chosen him because I think he was possibly the most interesting human being who has ever lived". A N Wilson Born in the middle of the 18th century in Frankfurt, Goethe went on to become the pre-eminent figure in German literature. As well as writing plays and poetry (including Faust) he was a statesman, a scientist, an artist and a critic. Qu…
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We may think of ‘globalism’ as a recent development, but its origins date back centuries, when courageous seafarers pioneered routes across the oceans with the objectives of exploration, trade and profits. Improvements in ship design, compasses and mapping, enabled navigation across unprecedented distances. The embarkation points were the vibrant p…
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"The Queen Boadicea, standing loftily charioted, Brandishing in her hand a dart and rolling glances lioness-like, Yell'd and shriek'd between her daughters in her fierce volubility": so wrote Alfred, Lord Tennyson in the 19th Century, celebrating the story of an ancient English warrior queen who sparked a brutal and bloody rebellion against Roman r…
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George Mehok is an exciting mix between thriller author, software designer and angel investor for new companies working on the edge of our technological revolution. His debut novel, Going Dark, skillfully keeps us on the edge of our seats. He weaves today’s most challenging issues with threads back to 1791 and a secret military unit tasked with del…
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Eugene Victor Debs, born 1855 in Indiana USA, was a railway worker, a trade unionist and a five time candidate for the presidency. He was imprisoned during the First World War for sedition. He'd urged resistance to the draft; President Woodrow Wilson called him a traitor to the nation, but Debs still ran for the presidency in 1920. His sentence was…
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TJ Halbertsma is the living equivalent of Superman – one moment Clark Kent; in a suit and tie, commuting to work in an office, in his own words, “just an ordinary guy”. Next, spinning through an imaginary revolving door and you find the same person achieving extraordinary feats. From climbing some of the most notoriously dangerous mountains such as…
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🆓Start your 7-day free trial! https://linktr.ee/ivyflip In this episode of The CouchPod, we sit down with Tanner Osborne, the founder of the reselling community and a seasoned flipper with years of experience flipping everything from couches to pontoons. Tanner shares his journey from growing up in a small town in North Dakota to building a success…
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🆓Start your 7-day free trial! https://linktr.ee/ivyflip In this episode of The Couch Pod, I sit down with Chase and Christian from Select Living Furniture, LLC, who transformed their humble beginnings as pizza delivery drivers into an impressive couch-flipping empire. Averaging $75,000 to $80,000 in monthly revenue in 2024, these guys are the real …
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"Make the boy interested in natural history," wrote Captain Scott from his tent in the Antarctic. He was talking about his son, three year old Peter Scott, whom he never saw again and who went on to found the Wildfowl and Wetland Trust and campaign against the hunting of whales. The son also designed the panda logo for the Wold Wide Fund for Nature…
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🆓Start your 7-day free trial! https://linktr.ee/ivyflip In this episode of The Couch Pod, we reconnect with Dylan Pabia, a top player in the couch flipping world, to dive deep into the current challenges facing the industry. We explore the alarming trend of Facebook Marketplace shutdowns and discuss how flippers can adapt and thrive in this changin…
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The term ‘rat-race’ was coined long before we had smartphones and social media. It has even more meaning today when we’re at risk of becoming rats in a worldwide laboratory, monitored and manipulated by technology giants and artificial intelligence. Therefore, it is even more important to take control of our own minds father than let other do it fo…
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Margot Fonteyn was an icon: a ballerina who helped build and indeed embodied the traditional image of a dancer, just as the artform was finding its feet on the British cultural scene. From humble beginnings she became an international star, enjoying a dazzling career with the Royal Ballet, a glamorous social life as a diplomat’s wife, and an electr…
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Craig Brown’ latest book A Voyage Around the Queen not only became an immediate best-seller, but also gathered praise for being a unique, deep and thought-provoking portrayal of the late Queen Elizabeth and the monarchy. Craig is best known as a humourist for Private Eye and the Mail whose tools of the trade are usually sharp lines and throwaway wi…
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Professor Colin Blakemore was a famous communicator of science, the youngest ever Reith lecturer on the BBC. He was also targeted by members of the animal rights movement, which sent bombs and letters lined with razor blades to his home address. Born in 1944 and brought up in Coventry, Colin Blakemore was committed to brain research and the connect…
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With great panache, Kim Lengling explains hope, kindness, fear and that slate of emotions that weave their way through all our lives. Her podcast is called Let Fear Bounce. Among her many books are Nuggets of Hope: Cultivate Kindness and Paw Prints on the Couch: How Pets Enrich Lives. Her office manager is called Dexter, a loyal hound who barks at …
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Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau was an oceanographer, filmmaker and explorer who made the seas a subject of fascination for millions. During his time in the French Navy, Cousteau co-invented the Aqua-Lung: the first self-contained kit that allowed a diver to breathe underwater. This and his fascination with capturing images of the subaquatic world pa…
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Dr Orit Gal is an entrepreneur, advisor, and senior lecturer in Strategy & Complexity at Regent’s University London. She specialises in analysing trends and identifying potential for systemic change within complex environments. Her extensive experience includes collaborations with tech startups, non-government organisation, innovative policy think-…
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Mihir Bose face and voice became known to millions after he won the job as the BBC’s first non-white sports editor building on his earlier reputation as a sports correspondent on The Telegraph and Sunday Times. Among his latest books is Thank You Mr Crombie – a tribute to the Home Office official who allowed him to settle in Britain and pursue his …
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Angela van Breemen is a soprano soloist, a poet, a wildlife activist and she has just published her first novel. For those Goldster creative writers, how does that feel? Past Life’s Revenge is a crime thriller with a twist of surrealism. Since childhood, David Harris has suffered from debilitating nightmares. He has sought the advice of psychiatris…
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No, the world is not broken. Gloom can be conquered. As for those headline stories about the young going astray, homelessness, prison overcrowding, come and meet Goldster’s light that shines through fog. The charity work of the magnificent and bubbly Eva Hamilton stretches from Mother Teresa’s Home for the Dying in Calcutta when she was in her twen…
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On 12 November, Lucinda Hawksley will be joined on the Goldster Magazine Show by Laura Payne, host of the highly-acclaimed The Dreamboat Podcast. Laura, a psychotherapist with a passion for uncovering the mysteries of our minds, has become one of the leading voices in dream research. The Dreamboat Podcast explores the fascinating world of dreams, d…
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🆓Start your 7-day free trial! https://linktr.ee/ivyflip In this episode of The Couch Pod, I chat with Isa Diaz, a former corporate pro who transformed her passion for fashion into a thriving reselling business. Isa reveals how she ditched the 9-to-5 grind to travel the world while running a profitable designer resale empire. We explore her top stra…
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🆓Start your 7-day free trial! https://linktr.ee/ivyflip In this episode of The Couch Pod, we talk to Matt Koelen, 2024's Mr. Universe Canada and former stripper, who traded his stripping career for flipping couches! Discover how he transitioned from the stage to the marketplace, making big profits by focusing on high-ticket flips. Matt shares his s…
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Austin Williams is an architect, author and podcaster who imagines our society and cities far into the future. For many years he has worked closely with Baroness Claire Fox at the Academy of Ideas, organising regular weekend-long events of debate, argument and fun. He is frequently a contradictory voice on a range of issues from climate change, sus…
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“A terrific overview of Japan’s long and rich history that covers an astonishing amount of ground. A gem of a book that is as engaging as it is readable.” Peter Frankopan This week on the Goldster Magazine Show, Lucinda Hawksley will be joined by author Lesley Downer who will take us on a captivating journey into the heart of one of Asia’s most eni…
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🆓Start your 7-day free trial! https://linktr.ee/ivyflip In this episode of The Couch Pod, we sit down with Keon Roane, a former car salesman who transitioned to full-time couch flipping with his brand, Adaptive Seat. Keon shares his journey of flipping couches from part-time to full-time, discussing the challenges and strategies he’s encountered al…
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🆓Start your 7-day free trial! https://linktr.ee/ivyflip In this episode of The Couch Pod, we chat with Michael Griffing from Griff’s Furniture Emporium. Michael shares how he started flipping couches back in 2013 with just $300 and a dream. Discover how he balanced his Marine Corps duties with building a successful flipping business. Learn about th…
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Peter Abrahams is fascinated in the human body. As a young man he worked with the Peace Corp in the jungles of Sarawak, went on to train as a doctor, planned to become a surgeon but got side-tracked into writing a ground-breaking book, praised by his medical peers: Clinical Anatomy of Practical Procedures. He has taught and researched around the wo…
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How do we place a value on happiness? Can we measure our sense of well-being and fulfilment through science? Richard Layard is founder and former director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. He has been editor of the annual World Happiness Report which examines the state of happiness at various stages of life. …
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Psychotherapist Jennifer Cox believes that women are never allowed to truly express their anger, and this is making them ill. After a lifetime of being told to repress it, to hide away and fear it, anger has begun to manifest in female bodies in myriad ways that cannot be controlled. Do you agree? Jennifer has drawn her conclusions from talking to …
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Until last year, Professor Alf Collins was NHS England’s Clinical Director for personalised care. His mission in health and well-being is to build around an individual’s needs bringing in shared decision-making, care planning, self-management support, social prescribing and that Goldster concept of ‘rethinking medicine.” Alf worked for a decade wit…
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🆓Start your 7-day free trial! https://linktr.ee/ivyflip In this episode of The CouchPod, we chat with Spencer Webber of Weber Premium Furniture in Logan, Utah. Spencer has flipped over 1,200 couches in three years and now shares his journey on YouTube. Learn his tips for sourcing great deals, balancing couch flipping with real estate and content cr…
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In 1981 Brian Clough paid £1 million pounds to bring Justin Fashanu to Nottingham Forest. It was the climax of a meteoric career, but within months the goals had dried up, he'd been going to gay nightclubs, and Fashanu had also become become a born again Christian. Four decades later Justin Fashanu remains top flight English football's only openly …
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🆓Start your 7-day free trial! https://linktr.ee/ivyflip In this episode of The Couch Pod, we welcome Michael Griffin Griff from Griff’s Furniture Emporium. Griff dives deep into his innovative commission sales strategy that keeps his team motivated and his sales soaring. As many couch flippers face the challenge of moving inventory, Griff shares ho…
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